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Letter About Palin Goes Viral
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:05:00 -0400
This week in Wasilla, Alaska, a woman named Anne Kilkenny sent a letter to some college friends about her former mayor, Sarah Palin. By week's end, the letter was pinging around the country and Kilkenny's phone was ringing off the hook.
Teen Sex, Sex Education And Sarah Palin
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:39:00 -0400
Gov. Sarah Palin has been a strong supporter of programs that advocate abstinence until marriage, and she also opposes explicit sex education. Alaska's law is silent on these issues, however, and it provides no specific funding for sex education in the schools.
Examining Palin's Pentecostal Background
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:14:00 -0400
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has electrified religious conservatives who see her as one of their own. The Republican vice presidential candidate brings evangelical credentials to the ticket and has a Pentecostal background.

The Talk of the Town

Dorothy Wickenden: An old-style, Los Angeles feminist on Obama.
Dorothy Wickenden Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Rosalind Wyman--seventy-seven years old; doughty feminist; political fund-raiser and philanthropist; hostess to J.F.K., Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and Hollywood types too numerous to count; youngest elected member of the Los Angeles City Council (at the age of twenty-two); first woman to run a national political . . .
Lauren Collins: The Brooklyn painter Kehinde Wiley.
Lauren Collins Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
The painter Kehinde Wiley first travelled to Nigeria in 1997. He was trying to find his father, whom he had never met, or, more crucially for a portraitist, seen. (His mother didn’t have any photographs.) After several weeks in Lagos, he found his dad, who welcomed him. But--like any . . .
James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility?
James Surowiecki Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market’s “ascent,” in particular . . .

 

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Biblioteca Arcana - Articles and documents related to the religion and rituals of the ancient Greeks and Romans, hymns, poetry and esoteric matter.
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404 Demeter, the Thesmophoria, and the Eleusinian Mysteries - An illustrated introduction to these important topics in ancient Greek religious practice from Sarah M. Wilkes.

Dionysiac Mysteries and the Thesmophoria - The Dionysiac Mysteries and the Thesmophoria both gave women in Greece an opportunity to escape, even just for a short time, from the domestic women's sphere. By Lynne Aftuck.

Greek Religion - Essay investigates the religious practices of the ancient Greeks and describes their holy sites known as oracles.

Greek Religion at Thinkquest.org - Explores the polytheistic religion of the ancient Greeks, as well as their temples, oracles, gods, goddesses and myths.
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Olympian Gods and Goddesses - Resources to research the gods and goddesses of Olympos.
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The Ancient Greek World: Greek Religion - Brief description of ancient Greek religious attitudes from the University of Pennsylvania Museum.

The Greek City-State and the Religious Festival - A brief examination of the religious dimension of the ancient Olympic games, from the Perseus Project.

The Horned Owl Library: Hekate in Early Greek Religion - Robert Von Rudloff examines various faces of Hekate through her evolution.
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The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games - Multimedia article.
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